A woman saw red and attacked a 14-year-old schoolboy travelling on the top deck of a bus.

Defendant Sharon Clancy, 42, originally claimed that she gave him a few back-handers.

But a judge said a video of the incident in some ways undermined what she said.

Clancy, of Ffordd Pennant in Mostyn , admitted that the red mist came down when she assaulted the boy, causing him actual bodily harm, on July 3.

She believed that the boy had previously been responsible for an assault on a member of her family.

District Judge Gwyn Jones, sitting at North East Wales Magistrates’ Court at Mold , placed her on a community order for 40 weeks under which she must remain indoors between 6pm and 6am on a tagged curfew.

Sharon Clancy (Image: Andrew Price/View Finder Pictures)

She was also ordered to pay the boy £250 compensation for the pain and trauma she had caused him, with £85 prosecution costs and an £85 surcharge.

The judge said the video showed Clancy's finger-wagging started immediately without the boy having the opportunity to say anything. He was just sitting down, was extremely vulnerable, and was unable to get away.

Her behaviour, he said, was “wholly and utterly” inappropriate.

Rhian Jackson, prosecuting, said it was on the evening of July 3 that the boy was on the Arriva bus.

At Holywell , he went downstairs and asked the driver if there was time to have a cigarette.

The driver said there was not because he was leaving shortly, and the boy returned upstairs and said “alright” to the defendant but she blanked him.

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He sat down on the opposite side and, after a minute, she approached him and accused him of assaulting a member of her family.

The boy heard her on the phone saying: “I have got him here.”

He said he did not know what she was talking about and started to laugh, which made her angry.

She said, “what the f**k are you laughing at?”, and it was the prosecution case that she started punching him.

He was struck to the left side of the face and she also pulled his hair.